THE unprovoked air strike by Israeli forces on a scientific research centre on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus is the opening shot in the major war imperialism has prepared against Syria and Hezbollah and their leading ally in the region, Iran.
This illegal act of international terrorism by the Zionist state was condemned by the Russian Foreign Ministry which issued a statement saying: ‘If this information is confirmed, then we are dealing with unprovoked strikes against targets located on the territory of a sovereign state, which brazenly infringes on the UN Charter and is unacceptable, no matter the motive used for its justification.’
The chief of the Arab League was also clear in his condemnation of the Israeli attack noting that ‘this brutal aggression is a clear violation of the sovereignty of an Arab state’, adding ‘such acts violate the UN Charter, the international law and conventions, and the Security Council resolutions’.
These outright condemnations stand in distinct contrast to the absolute silence on this flagrant breach of international law and UN resolutions that has come from Washington, London and Paris.
No outcry about rogue states has been forthcoming from the centres of world imperialism which in the past have been so quick to impose sanctions or go to war to uphold the ‘sanctity of international law’.
That there has been not a peep from them is scarcely surprising.
On the very day that Israel launched its cowardly attack, the head of their military intelligence, Aviv Kochavi, was in the US, no doubt briefing his imperialist masters on the attack and receiving further instructions from the Obama regime.
Meanwhile, Cameron was in Tripoli in an armoured car, under heavy guard, trying to rescue imperialism from the disaster that has swept North Africa since NATO murdered Gadaffi and brought reactionary Islamists to power. The major achievement of this campaign has been to see North Africa and the Middle East declared to be a no-go area for UK citizens by the Foreign Office.
Undeterred by the disasters that they have created, the imperialists are now stoking up even bigger wars against the Syrian and Iranian governments, and the Hezbollah movement in the Lebanon, as the only bloody way out of their crisis.
There is no doubt that the air raid on Syria was carried out with the full knowledge and support of the imperialist powers.
As for the ‘justification’ referred to in the Russian statement, this amounts to the claim being made by the Israeli state that it is worried about Syrian ‘weapons of mass destruction’ falling into the hands of Islamist extremists and being used against them – a concern that has been faithfully reiterated by Washington and London.
This begs the question – if they are so worried about WMDs falling into such undesirable hands, why are they bombing Syrian targets on behalf of these self-same Islamist extremists and Jihadists?
Why is imperialism doing everything it can to supply weapons and military logistics to the very people they claim to be so worried about?
The answer to these questions is quite simple: imperialism is not in the slightest worried about the right-wing Islamists who, in practice, have proved to be loyal allies.
They are quite prepared to use them against the Arab revolution and even to overlook any small upsets in the cosy relationship, such as the odd killing of a US ambassador by jihadists as occurred in Libya last year, and the murder of UK citizens in Algeria.
In its death agony, imperialism is preparing for a major war in the Middle East, a war that will necessarily involve Iran which will not be able to sit back and watch Syria being dismembered in the full knowledge that they will be next in line.
The only way to defeat these war-like actions by the imperialist powers is for the working class to intervene against the common enemy, on the basis that the enemy is at home, and overthrow it with socialist revolutions. This is the only way to a much better world for the working people and the poor of the planet.
